Feud in the Icelandic Saga by Jesse L. Byock

Feud in the Icelandic Saga

Jesse L. Byock

300 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas. Jesse Byock shows how the dominant concern of medieval Icelandic society-the channeling of violence into accepted patterns of feud and the regulation of conflict-is reflected in the narrative of ...

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